Brexit Day 26: Brexit throws a spanner in global growth :-(

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised it's forecast prediction of the the World Economic Outlook (WEO) down by 0.1% to 3.1%. It's not a huge drop, but it is a drop. Unsurprisingly, but more worryingly, they predict that the UK will be be the worst affected of the advanced economies (gun, foot, use your imagination). With the forecast for the UK in 2017 being cut from 2.2% to 1.3%. Before the vote, the IMF had been saying that the world economy was showing promising signs of growth. Now, who knows ...